St. Paul daily globe., 1887-09-05
Notes About Leading Minneapolis In
dustry---Talks and Walks About
the Mills.
The De Soto Mill Reporter Again Loose
and Searching For Whom He
May Devour.
Personal Items and Chunks of Taffy
About the Men and Their
tt,.,q Work.

eideats to record, save the breaking of
the gang driving pully at the Day mill
Friday, but it will be ready for duty on
Monday morning. The satisfaction
given by w. Markell and J. Sanders as
circular and gang sawyers respectively
is the increase, and in this respect it
resembles the cutting capacity of the
mill, while MeSsrs. Wilder, the tilers,
Will not take back seat for any in the
city w. w. Wilder is cultured gen.
tleman as well as an expert filer.
"Get there" Ike," was the vulgariSm
flung at /. I'll. Thurston, the popular
and juvenile gang sawyer at the Dia-
mOnd, last Thursday, as he let the
''many grinders" of his gang into
inch and a half stuff exactly at o'clock,
and that he .'gOt there" in great shape
can be learned from the fact that at IL
o'clock noon he had turned out 81 800
feet of lumber in just three hours. Like
all men of genius, Mr.. Thurston is very
uuaSSuming. This is his fourth sum-
mer running the Diamond gang.
The De Soto mill is now getting where
she belongs. All her work for the past
week was in the neighbOrhood of 200, 900
feet for ten hours both night and day.
After turning out 900 on Wednesday
night with Saul MiIlen at the helm, she
turned out 225,000 the next day under
the whip of Vice President Farr, and
this without any effort at picking logs.
The proprietorS of this mill have a good
thing and they know it, but they do not
care that any one else should, as it is
next to impossible to get an item of
news out of them relative to the mill,
especially out of President Brown,
whose genial gO0d-nature and unaSsum-
fo Itx- hos hi hr.-f -, -
friends. Since Mr.. Miller became night
foreman. John Manthey files the gang.
Frank Sims is the appointee of the
ltaSca Lumber company, whose logs the
De Soto is saving, to see after the logs
and the cutting, etc. He fills the bill to
perfection, is well liked by all. and
among his many good qualities
can be found great appreciation for
the GLOBE. which he says must be read
every night before embracing the con-
genial ''Miss Morpheus" The reporter
cannot say whether he has any more
substantial ''embraces" of his own or
not, but he is sometimes accompied with
more than his share of fair escorts to
witness the nocturnal illuminations at
the mill. The Smith Bros. have charge
of the slab and Sawdust department.
They have lots of backbone" and are
making lots of money. VIC. Smith has
inaugurated series of watermelon
picnics." They come off about 10 O'clock
p. m, and are most enjoyable. The re-
porter tumbled in this week while a
phenomenal melon was being devoured.
Smith said he weighed it and that it
was a ''seventy-fve-pound but Saul
Miller said if the above figures were
divided by two it would be nearer the
truth; but the reporter was content to
let them dispute its weight while he
helped to make it lighter. The MeSSrS
FarrI and Assistant Treasurer Nc
LaughtOn were among the invited
guests, and seemed to enjoy the sport
with the boys.
Att the Northern mill it is the old
story, good work and no 'let up'' either
night or day. A gentleman of classic
appearance and considerable experience
is superintendent, and, in paying his
ransom" in order to give him higher
position, his name being w. B. Ransom.
The s. foreman, Mr.. Somers, Engineer
Carrier and the whole pharaphernalia
are in the usually good condition of good
men and good workers. Dan Keller, an
Oldand faithful employe, runs the plan
ing mill for this company. Like all
good fellows, he is an ardent admirer of
the GLOBE.
thing goes along splendidly. The vari-
Gus apartments are filled with capable.
good workers, and the goal of the capi-
talist-the millionaire's bank book-will
be soon, if it is not already. in the pos
session of this firm. Mr.. Bardwell is a
gentleman in every particular, cour-
teOuS, affable and always approachable.
They do large stair business, having
at present twenty-five to fifty men in
that department.. for whom Foreman
Mcclellan furnishes the brains, at least
the designing part of them. They are
doing some very fine work in the cary
ing department, thanks to Foreman
Murdoch, who learned his trade in Can
ada, but, '.of course" perfected it in our
great Eastern cities.
Johnson'S planning mill, near the De
Soto Boiler works, employ six men and
make speciality of planning and mould
ing.
James Minon, mot Minow), who was
shot by Handle at his saloon, corner
Seventeenth and second street north,
Saturday week ago, has not yet re-
turned to his place at the DeSoto boiler
works. He is alive and kicking, how
ever. and intends to make it as hot for
Handle as the law will permit. AT the
Diamond iron works Forenoon Ditben-
ner keeps everything in motion like a
good little man.
E. M. Smith, the we'll known and ca
pable engineer, who has for the last fif-
teen years run the engine in the planning
mill of j. 81. Conkey, ON First street, be-
tween Twenty-secOnd and Twenty
third avenues north, Himsley and Fore
man Hodges, make an excellent team,
and they make something else. too,
which something else emake"eyerything
else," namely, lots of money, which
makes Mr.. Conkey smile complacently.
Mr.. Stevens, at the Leighton, cOntin-
ues on deck. He got in full week. and
now that the Mississippi aqua has been
augmented somewhat by the recent
rains, he hopes to get in solid fall.
With the solid crew he never fails to
keep around him we see nothing to him
der the fulfillment of the above hopes,
which we hope will be more than real
lied.
Hall & Dueey, who will not ''come
in behind" had their usual good sue
cess last week. They, like every other
company who, since Adam was boy,
hire, go cd men, will never get left; as in
the saw mill business. like every other,
a great deal depends upon the en-
ployes. "The right man in the right
place" is Hall & Ducey's motto, and in
the selection of Foreman Cook and En-
gineers Davidson and Smith, they have
been exceptionally felicitous.
The majority of the 1870 employees of
the North Star Iron Works read last
Sundays GLOBE. They say they will
buy a new suit for the reporter If the
GLOBE can influence the removal of the
works to East Minneapolis.
!, Across the river the planning mill of
John f. Wilcox, corner Ramsey and
Eleventh avenue east, near Twenty
third street bridge, employs twenty men.
F. E. Wilcox, brother of the owner, is
the foreman. They are two good, en-
terpfising fellows, who give excellent
satisfaction and do lots of work. They
mffitn q SnacialtY af nlaninp and mn11ld. !.